Quotes About Fanaticism

I'm a big fan of TV.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

Extremism is not confined, however, to Muslims, and non-Muslims too have perpetrated terrorist acts.

El fanático incendiario de libros se da cuenta entonces de que todo el pueblo ha escondido los libros memorizándolos. ¡Hay libros por todas partes, escondidos en la cabeza de la gente! El hombre se vuelve loco, y la historia termina.

To destroy public faith in legality was the imperfect formula of his pedantic fanaticism; but the subconscious conviction that the framework of an established social order cannot be effectually shattered except by some form of collective or individual violence was precise and correct.  He was a moral agent—that was settled in his mind.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard, absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.

every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Por ejemplo, el valor de la perseverancia requiere un límite para que no se convierta en fanatismo: "aprender a perder".

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

Nunca o mal é feito tão bem como quando é feito em nome da religião.

They thought of themselves as pure and righteous. They had a kind of holy fervor about them, despite which—or perhaps because of which—they were capable of unholy atrocities.

those with the most passionate convictions can justify the most savage cruelties.

If you're still stuck, re-watch Misery and imagine that your number one fan insists that you finish by the end of the month.

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

The world is full of men with strange obsessions who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

A true believer is a danger to humanity.

Then, after you have killed as many Americans as you can," Sano added, "you are to use the other grenade to kill yourself.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.

It was Pope Innocent III who placed in the hands of the church this terrible weapon of persecution, and who, by the awful severity of his own attitude towards liberty of conscience, of thought, and of expression, afforded to fanaticism and religious intolerance an example that was to be their merciless guide through centuries to come.

A fan had written my name on his chest with blood once. That was not just crazy but scary, too!

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.